creative filing

Posted in Im a fucking Idiot on June 17, 2009 by flyingrowan

I will never be organised and it will be the bane of my life.

Surprisingly I don’t have one of those overloaded folders at the back of the wardrobe full of useful things like P45s and old payslips.

Last night on the phone to my mum I leaned out the window for some air, glanced down and saw my passport carefully jammed down the side of the radiator. I’m in the process of renewing it, so if I hadn’t happened to look down there I’d have no idea where I’d “put” it and be fucked.

Wish me luck

C-Curve

Posted in Art with tags , , , , on May 18, 2009 by flyingrowan

Anyone in the Sussex area should check this sculpture out, it’s beautiful. The work of Anish Kapoor,

Especially at sun set.  I’ve put more pictures up on my flickr if you wanna see any more, just click the image above

Dove Hair Minimising Deodorant

Posted in Bad Things, Rant with tags , , , , on May 15, 2009 by flyingrowan

Right, now women have to look as if they don’t even grow hair:

Apparently this is how it works.

Well now I feel reassured.  I’m glad it contains Pro-Epil Complex, because I know what that is and what it does and what the complex contains. OH YEAH WAIT A MINUTE.

What is in this thing? and why would anyone want to put something in their arm-pits that makes their hair actually minimised, thinner and feel totally different?

Besides, under arm hair if left to grow naturally, is soft enough thank you very much. Don’t even get me started on vaginal deodorant.

Hi, My Name’s Jay Hunt and my name rhymes with Cunt

Interview

Posted in Music, The Great Outdoors, outdoors, pj harvey with tags , , , , , , on April 8, 2009 by flyingrowan

I should be learning about Dutch Elm Disease {go here if you wanna learn too}, but instead I’m seeking solace in PJ Harvey, this time in the form of an interview with her and John Parish at XFM.

Here it is, if you like that kind of thing

I AM A WOMEN , NOT A SKINNY DOLL

Posted in Music with tags , on March 27, 2009 by flyingrowan

Hell yeah, check this out

Miss Platnum – Give me the food (in case the video doesn’t work)

I don’t care
What people say
about my weight
So if you want
To take me out for a date
Make sure there is enough good food on my plate
And maybe I let you get a taste of my cake !

Previews :)

Posted in Music with tags , , on March 24, 2009 by flyingrowan

There are places I can download nearly all of the new album in live sessions but I know the quality is going to be bad and I just don’t wanna hear the album first time in bad quality… really I want to hear it on vinyl but I don’t have the money to buy a record player just for PJ Harvey. Do I?

Here are some songs though!

Tying the knot that’s hard to undo

Posted in Frustration, Love, Relationships with tags , on March 23, 2009 by flyingrowan

{It’s not in depth, it’s not meant to offend any married people and I have never had a divorce or been married so this is totally from my inexperienced, jumped-up perspective.}

(Plus, a lot of it is still really un-edited because I’m lazy and I should go to bed so you’re just gonna get an idea of how my mind works while I’m standing in a cold off-licence staring at drink I can’t drink)

Marriage counsellors – think about how weird that concept is. Marriage is a completely man-made concept and is unnatural; animals don’t get married, even ones that mate for life, and its unnatural to expect or force someone to stay with you until you die.  Either you work well together or you don’t, or you do for a while and then you don’t, or you do forever, whatever, but it’s okay if you don’t…

But it becomes not okay when you have to involve outside parties such as solicitors and courts and counsellors and money. Your relationship should be a private place really. That’s how I’d want to conduct mine at least.

The idea that people need counselling to help them stay together… counselling or convincing, or bending, or reminding..what’s the difference. Do both partners ever really want to go to those things?  Isn’t one of them usually too gutless to say what they really want so they have to go and sit in front of a stranger who spends an hour stating the obvious at them? “So you have a communication problem, that’s why you’re here” is what it could all be reduced to instead of “he never talks to me” or “she never gives me space.” Surely they need individual therapy to help them understand what they want out of life and to help them or enable them to communicate more openly with their partners about what it is they want, and then see if its compatible or if they want to grow together or compromise, and if not agree that it would be healthier if they went their separate ways for now and maybe come back to each other when they’ve been out and explored themselves as individuals, before they commit to forcing themselves into a partnership where they need a third party to help them talk to each other about what they want out of a relationship and fucking pay them for it.

It seems like divorces mean break ups become even messier than they are on their own and the very fact that divorce and marriage exists in the first place makes splitting up so much harder than it makes sense to; it makes a big deal of it when in actual fact its normal to fall out of love with someone for a myriad of reasons.

You cannot own anyone. You cannot hold onto anyone. We just come into each others lives when we are ready and leave when we are ready, we shouldn’t be made to feel like a criminal for wanting or needing to do that because its a wonderful thing, life is fluid.  The SNAILS.  Patricia Highsmith – the woman who wrote The Talented Mr Ripley (Which is a film I didn’t particularly enjoy to be honest, but I’ve never read the book) used to keep snails in her handbag and take them to parties because they reminded her of “the fluidity and hermaphroditic nature of life” i mean I’m not really going on about gender here but the fluidity thing reminded me of her.. plus i just think this is weird and cool enough to mention.

Anyway, a legally binding relationship, one that isn’t based on business or property or land or possessions, but love. And feelings? And emotions? And the ever changing nature of the self? What an absurd concept! Human beings’ feelings are so unpredictable that you can’t tie yourself to a contract of love or commitment or behaviour and feeling, in the same way that you would to a job or a mortgage, (even those things are volatile) that’s not how life actually works.

It discourages people from being honest. There are plenty of kids who would have a happier home life if their parents could or just would split up and live as separate happy individual parents, with or without new partners and with their own lives. This would show the child how happiness is possible, when you don’t force yourself into a box you can’t crawl out of without breaking all your limbs and other peoples limbs in the process. I know divorce isn’t always that bad but why should it even exist? Because marriage exists, why does that exist?

It’s not that I have a problem with the union of two people… or monogamy, and I’m not saying I think it’s wrong for people to stay together forever and I’ve seen people who met at 15 and are still happy 50 odd years later.  Just the nature of the union.  I haven’t brought bringing religion into this either because that would make it even more complicated, the closest experience I have of marriage is my parents and they didn’t marry before the eyes of God, they ran away and did it in secret with me in tow.

ANYWAY.

You should only promise to love someone for as long as you do and to always be honest about how you feel. There is nothing else required or in my opinion possible for a true relationship. Then little girls wouldn’t grow up with the false idea that someone will come along and look after them forever, or be at your side til you die… so that they can start developing ideas of freedom and individuality and the confidence that they don’t need a relationship to be happy, that they can make themselves happy and pursue their own ideas without guilt or the nagging feeling that surely in order to be complete as a person they need to be in a fucking relationship with a ring on their finger and a 10 year fucking plan.

In the rain, in the evening, in the garden

Posted in Good Things, Music with tags , , , on March 23, 2009 by flyingrowan

Le video officiel pour Black Hearted Love, de Jake et Dinos Chapman (The Chapman Brothers)

(I dunno why I said that in French, it just seemed fitting as I’ve been listening to French ladies sing)

This lady is not French, but she is jumping in the rain, which is great :)
In case the video doesn’t work go here

Worrying

Posted in the i've forgotten to put it in a specific category category on March 19, 2009 by flyingrowan

Someone found my blog by searching for “is eating super glue bad for you?”

Dude…

I’m not the only one who hates birthdays

Posted in Art, Bad Things, Good Things, Webcomics on March 14, 2009 by flyingrowan

Check this out, the first line of this is me:

“This is how I plan on celebrating my birthday. Gonna have a good wank and wish for fifty dollars.”

Go here for the full picture http://kinokofry.com/2009/03/13/kinokofry-050-fifty/

Thanks for pointing this out Crippens, can you find the other one you sent me ages ago?  :)

Here it is!  http://kinokofry.com/art/study2.gif  i used to do this when trying to write essays